Fence-post.



D. H. MILLER.

FENCE POST.

APPL'IGATION FILED JUNE 19 1909.

PatGHtBd Mar. 15,1910.

DANIEL H. MILLER, 01? FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

FENCE-POST.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 115, taro.

Application filed June 19, 1909. Serial No. 503,162.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL H. MILLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fort Worth, in the county of Tarrant and State of Texas,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fence -Posts, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention has for its ob'ject a simple, durable and eflicientconstruction of fence post which may be cheaplymanufactured and whichwill operate effectually to hold any desired number of line wires orrails which may be easily applied and secured in place or detachedwhenever desired, and the invention consists in certain constructions,and arrangements of the parts that I shall hereinafter fully describeand claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to thefollowing description and accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective View illustrating the application of myimproved fence post; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of one ofthe posts, the same being broken out and the two parts brought togetherto indicate the approximate length-of the post; and, Fig. 3 is ahorizontal sectional view thereof.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the accompanying'drawin sby the same reference characters.

eferring to the drawings the numeral 1 designates my improved fence postwhich may be constructed of soft sheet steel rolled or otherwise shapedinto round or square form or rectangular form such as illustrated in thedrawing, and may be of any desired size both as to thiclzness andlength, but

preferably it tapers from its lower to its upper end and may be providedat itsupper end with any desired cap, according as judgment and tastemay dictate.

The post 1 is preferably provided with one or more rounded corner edgessuch as that indicated at 2 and is provided on such edge with a seriesof transverse recesses 3 of any desired number and at an desiredintervals from each other. The line wires 4, or rails, if rails be used,are passed through said recesses 3, and a locking rod 5 is passeddownwardly into the post and across the slots in" a vertical direction,in front of the line wires 4 or rails, so as to securely hold the samein place. In the pre ferred embodiment of the invention, the recesses 3are formed by cutting two transverse slits in the corner of the post andby bending the metal defined by and located between the correspondingslits in an inward direction, as clearly illustrated at 6, theseportions forming connecting tongues extending across the end walls ofthe recesses. The series of recesses 3 terminates at its lower end some,distance above the lower end of the post so as to provide a base portionwhich may be embedded in concrete or directly in the earth, and thatedge of the post which is formed with the recesses is provided below andclose to the lowermost recesses with a downwardly opening perforation 7and a grooved beveled exterior wall below said perforation as indicatedat 8. By this means, it will be seen that as the locking rod 5 is passeddownwardly to hold the line wires and rails in place, its lower end wallwill finally protrude from the perforation7 and ride along the groovedor beveled wall of the corner edge below the lowermost recess, the saidlower end of the locking rod being thereby bent in the final operationof movin the locking rod in place, such bentextremlty' therebypreventing the easy retraction of, the locking rod, while at the sametime it does not prevent the rod from being withdrawn whenever it isnecessary to do so to replace any of the wires or rails. In theoperation of securing the line wires for instance to the post, theuppermost wire is first put in place and stretched and the locking rod 5is then pusheddownwardly so as to vengage the line wlres as.

they are successively applied.

Itis to be understood that my inyention is not limited to the recesses 3which are formed'by' bending the metal inwardly, but that the metalbetween the slits may be removed if desired.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed. as new 1s:

The herein described fence post, provided transverse recessesintersecting said opening, wall whereby such end will be bent as and thepost being also provided with a perfofor the purpose set forth. 10ration below the lowermost recess and with In testimony whereof I aifixmy signature a beveled exterior wall below the perforain presence of twowitnesses.

tion, and a locking rod adapted to be in- DANIEL H. MILLER. [L.B.]serted into said opening across said recesses Witnesses:

and downwardly through the perforation EUGENE C. ORRIoK,

with its lower end riding upon the beveled J. C. TERRELL, Jr.

